Example sentences of "[noun sg] be held " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women in Islam are held in very high esteem , which Westerners do n't seem to realise . |
| 2 | Cable & Wireless holds around three-quarters of the shares , the Hong Kong Government another 7 per cent and the remainder are held by outside shareholders . |
| 3 | The bulk of the remainder are held by companies who show a strong preference for holding the stock of companies with whom they have important trading connections . |
| 4 | With consumption in Great Britain averaging 114kg ( 250lb ) per head per annum , incidentally the highest consumption figure in Europe , most of the crop is consumed in this country ; some potatoes are exported whilst the remainder are held back for use as a seed to produce the following year 's crop . |
| 5 | Talks and meetings on topics of interest to nurses looking for a change in career direction are held throughout the day , and personnel and recruitment officers make themselves available to answer questions and arrange interviews for interested applicants . |
| 6 | Minority shareholdings of [ ] % in ABC GmbH and [ ] % of ABC Corp are held by the local managers . |
| 7 | Elections of a kind are held in the Soviet Union , and in many other countries which are , officially or unofficially , one-party states . |
| 8 | Thus the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) will be valid only if the speaker index and the time index are held constant ( see e.g. Montague , 1968 ; Scott , 1970 ; Lewis , 1972 ) . |
| 9 | Therefore , PCNA may serve as a useful marker for proliferation if the conditions of fixation are held constant and the same antibody is used throughout the experiment . |
| 10 | If the ends of such non-dividing clone are held while it grows , then unexpectedly a double helix appears . |
| 11 | In contrast to this , extrinsic factors like food supply and predation are held by other workers to control the population cycles . |
| 12 | In the Mallophaga and Siphunculata , for example , the ovipositor is vestigial or absent ; in the Dictyoptera its valves are small and free ; in the Tettigoniidae ( Figs 46 and 47 ) those of one side are held together by tongue and groove joints and form , along with their counterparts of the opposite side , an elongate and powerful egg-laying instrument ; in most Hymenoptera stinging . |
| 13 | The overgrazing of livestock and cutting down of brush and trees for firewood are held responsible . |
| 14 | Body and neck are held together by four screws through a neckplate , and I 'd suggest it might be worth Vox looking at using one of these screws to hold the strap button , which at the moment is screwed to the body about half way along the top of the plate . |
| 15 | Alexander believed that the way our head and neck are held affects the hold body . |
| 16 | Thus we have the conventional one-address instruction format ( introduced in Chapter 1 ) where one of the operands and the result are held in the accumulator , and the store address of only the second operand has to be specified in the instruction . |
| 17 | To illustrate the combination of speculative and portfolio adjustment effects that are embodied in relative returns it is useful to analyse the changes that would arise if wealth and turnover are held constant and investors expect a rise of 1% in the relative return on UK investments in both the current and following quarters due to an expected exchange rate appreciation . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , big , butch rappers like LL Cool J and Public Enemy are held up as authentic voices of the Male Ghetto Experience ( usually by middle-class white semioticians ) , but if anything rap is even more the product of flatulent ego and opportunist marketing than anything by Bros or Kylie Minogue . |
| 19 | In continuum mechanics two types of force are held to at on a body : surface tractions which act on the surface of the volume under consideration and body forces , which act throughout the volume and in the most common case are gravitational or inertial in origin . |
| 20 | And yesterday Taoiseach Albert Reynolds did not rule out the possibility of the contest being held in the province , but 24 hours later RTE chief John Sorohan said Dublin would be the most likely venue . |
| 21 | Well I 've visited both Cambodia itself and the camps , er first of all in the camps , the situation is appalling because there are very many people who do not want to be in those camps and are really in effect being held there against their will , and what has been extraordinary until this year , is that the people who 've been holding them there against their will have been the Phol Pot dominated so-called coalition government and on the basis of the people being in the camps , that , that , that regime has gone on to claim recognition at the United Nations ; an appalling situation . |
| 22 | On a similar subject , THAT PETROL EMOTION were held up in Derry ( the place , not the EMF sex-god ) last week . |
| 23 | There is a big case of investment being held up in Ahoghill , and it is also being held up in Carrickfergus , and other places , too . |
| 24 | These 2 men are the guinea pigs in a unique experiment being held in the Harwell labs in Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | These 2 men are the guinea pigs in a unique experiment being held in the Harwell labs in Oxfordshire . |
| 26 | The antique fountain-pen market is in its early stages , with the first International Pen Show and Auction being held in Geneva , November 1–3 . |
| 27 | Brighton Polytechnic was established in April 1970 with the formal designation ceremony being held in February 1971 . |
| 28 | In Jones [ 1981 ] Crim LR 119 , minor abrasions and a bruise were held to be actual bodily harm , though the case was thought to be on the margins . |
| 29 | The prison , where some of the dissidents who opposed the Shahs rule were held by SAVAK , was painted up , the street were cleaned , pots of flowers were placed all along the main roads , birds in cages were hung from lamp posts , shopkeepers were given blue coats to wear . |
| 30 | The values of stocks held [ in Germany ] are to be adjusted if necessary to values equivalent to those if the stock were held in the UK . |